Bački Petrovac

Bački Petrovac Бачки Петровац Báčsky Petrovec
Town and municipality
Evangelical Church in Bački Petrovac
Coat of arms
Location of Bački Petrovac within Serbia
Coordinates: 45°21′38″N 19°35′30″E / 45.36056°N 19.59167°E / 45.36056; 19.59167Coordinates: 45°21′38″N 19°35′30″E / 45.36056°N 19.59167°E / 45.36056; 19.59167
Country	Serbia
Province	Vojvodina
District	South Bačka
Government
• Mayor	Pavel Marčok
Area
• Bački Petrovac	160 km2 (61 sq mi)
Elevation	86 m (282 ft)
Population (2011)
• Bački Petrovac	6,063
• Metro	13,302
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Postal code	21470
Area code(s)	+381(0)21
Car plates	NS
Website	www.backipetrovac.rs

Bački Petrovac (Serbian Cyrillic: Бачки Петровац, Slovak: Báčsky Petrovec) is a town and municipality located in the South Bačka District of the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia. The town has a population of 6,063, while Bački Petrovac municipality has 13,302 inhabitants.

In Serbian Cyrillic the town is known as Бачки Петровац, in Serbian Latin as Bački Petrovac, in Slovak as Petrovec or Báčsky Petrovec, in Hungarian as Petrőc, and in German as Petrovacz.

Bački Petrovac municipality includes the town of Bački Petrovac and the following villages:

Note: for the places with Slovak majority, the names are also given in Slovak.

Bački Petrovac is economical, cultural and administrative center of the municipality. It is a settlement of a town character, while the other three are villages of Pannonian type.

Being in south Bačka which according to special climatic and other conditions is one of the most fertile parts of Serbia, very suitable for settling down, here in this region people made their settlements very early. The first written records about Petrovac appears in the 13th century when Petrovac is mentioned as a church parish belonging to Bač County. Later that name is changed into Petrovac. Its first inhabitants were the Hungarians and Serbs. In the first half of the 18th century (1745) the Slovaks settled here. Since then Petrovac developed so that it represents cultural, economic, clerical and political center of the Slovaks in this region.

Agriculture is the most important economic activity based on the production of field crops (wheat, corn, broom weed, sugar beet, hop), cattle, breeding dud ponetry and vegetable crops. Besides agriculture there is also some industry manufacture, metal and chemical. Manufacture of wood civil engineering, printing activities, etc.

The ethnic Slovaks form a majority of the population in the municipality. There are 9,751 ethnic Slovaks in the municipality or 66% of population. Other ethnic groups are: Serbs (3,779 or 25.74%), Yugoslavs (293 or 1.99%), and others.